Hello everybody! Welcome to my blog! I am a Primary School English teacher learning about TICS! In this blog I will tell you about different tools and ideas to use in your class! Do not hesitate to ask me if you have any question!

Saturday, 20 February 2016

My PLE and PLN

Here is my PLE AND PLN. This challenge allowed me to reflect about my profesional
background, what I used and use to learn in CLIL..

First of all I would like to start by saying that I
used paint to do it, it is a very easy tool
to use, However, I would not recommend to do this kind of things with
it. As María Jesús wisely said, it is better to use others that give you the
possibility to continue editing in case you ran out of time in one computer.
Although at the end I did it and the result is very good I will take that into
account for future challenges.

There are so
many programmes that I used and of course I use in the present that are part of
my PLE

The most important ones for me, since are the one which I use the most are Facebook, Instagram, Skype and Twitter, they
are known as the Social Networks. Probably you are already familiarise with
them. However, do you really know how to take advantage of them to learn and to
share CLIL content? In my case I use them in this way:

In pinterest, facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube
I follow several pages which are related to CLIL, they post daily information,
materials and ideas that allow me to learn a lot, I can also put some of these
things into practice.

As far as skype is concerned, I use it to talk with
people that I met last year in King's College School who
are related to the education field, they give me advice and tell me
about different resources that can be used in class. Although, all of them are
also part of my PLN since I also share information there!

Coursera is without doubt something that you should
know about! It gives you the possibility to take a lot of courses for free, not
only can you choose among education related courses but also about maths, other
languages... and everything you can imagine! Have a look at it here!

I did a course
about autism which was really good and it was also fantastic to prepare for the
first certificate in English!

I had never heard about story jumper before but it
helped me a lot to create fantastic stories for the children, and now that I
know about it I used to tell the children stories that were already created
like for example one about emotions (really good tool!!!).

Everybody knows google and wikipedia, you can find
whatever you want about CLIL very quick and really easy too!

In regards of CNN, I would say that not only is it useful
to consult things about CLIL but also to learn english as you can read
news in this language.

My PLN is very simple, I had one blog that I created
when I was in the degree in which we posted things about CLIL and now with my
new one I will do exactly the same!

Whatsapp is the most useful tool when learning and
sharing things about CLIL, as I can easily ask to my partners of the master of
the degree doubts or we can even share ideas.

Of course the Master and the training period are my
two main sources of information when learning about CLIL, but also to share,
when we do presentations we expose what we have learnt, and when others do them
we learn from them. The same happens in my training period, of course I am
learning such valuable things from my teacher but she is learning a lot from
me, for example about ICT (she did not know StoryJumper and I showed her last
week).

In a nutshell, this activity has been really
interesting since now I am more aware of
the tools I use, and I can see that they are not so many. Thanks to my
peers presentations I will increase my PLE, (thanks Neus because I knew TED
Talks but I have never used it in CLIL), now you have talked us about it, and
it is part of your PLE, I think that I am going to take it into account for
listening to my students and of course for listening for me to improve!